2011 09 13 Warblers, Thrushes

Lake Park Birders,

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Whitefish Bay, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
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From: "Jym Mooney & Carol Lee Hopkins" <hopmoon@milwpc.com>
Subject: [wisb] Lake Park, Milwaukee 9/13
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:38:18 -0500

Locust Ravine in Lake Park was active late this afternoon, with multiple
Ovenbirds, Swainson's Thrushes, Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds, and
Waterthrushes. Two were Northern Waterthrushes, but a third appeared
to be
Louisiana Waterthrush, with an unstreaked throat, broad white
supercilium,
and whitish underparts. Also found Lincoln's Sparrow and Gray-Cheeked
Thrush, and other warblers: Wilson's, Common Yellowthroat, Nashville,
American Redstart, and Magnolia.

Jym Mooney, Milwaukee

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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:09:07 -0500
Subject: [wisb] Nice morning - Lake Park Milwaukee
From: Brian Hansen <rawshooter@gmail.com>

I knew it was going be a good morning when I opened my eyes in bed and
saw warblers in the tree right outside my window. I headed to Lake
Park and it was actually a little quiet at first but found a nice wave
on the west side of the first bridge that is just north of the light
house. Good close looks at quite a variety of warblers - see below.
For those that head to Lake Park, there is a Mulberry tree on the
south side of that bridge on the north east corner of the light house
lawn. It was full of Swainsons, Cedar Waxwings, Robins and Cardinals
pigging out. You can stand 20 feet away and watch them feed. Also
there are two juvenile Coopers Hawks near the lawn bowling. I have
seen or heard them every morning now for a couple of weeks while
walking my dog and they are not people shy at all. They seem to love
to chase each other around and make a lot of noise. One followed my
dog and I for about 200 yards yesterday. It would fly almost right up
to us and land on the nearest branch, then repeat as we walked way.
At one point is was maybe 10 feet over my head while stood there
talking to it. Couldn't get it to come home with us though :)

Photos maybe coming later. Didn't even have a chance to look at them
as I was way late for work.

Brian Hansen
Milwaukee - east side

Lake Park - General, Milwaukee, US-WI
Sep 13, 2011 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
35 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose 20
Cooper's Hawk 3
Ring-billed Gull 3
Mourning Dove 2
Chimney Swift 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Downy Woodpecker 3
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Empidonax sp. 2
American Crow 4
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3
Black-capped Chickadee 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
House Wren 1
Swainson's Thrush 5
American Robin 3
Gray Catbird 2
European Starling 6
Cedar Waxwing 12
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 3
American Redstart 8
Cape May Warbler 2
Northern Parula 1
Magnolia Warbler 4
Chestnut-sided Warbler 5
Blackpoll Warbler 2
Palm Warbler 20
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Wilson's Warbler 1
Chipping Sparrow 10
Northern Cardinal 4
House Finch 4
American Goldfinch 10
House Sparrow 14

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org/
wi)

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